Business Essentials Package

What is Business Essentials?

Our most popular package is FSB Business Essentials which includes a whole range of benefits and products designed to make your business fly

What's included?

A suite of legal benefits including a dedicated helpline, bundled insurance products and a range of online information to keep your business safe. Plus a whole range of negotiated benefits to help save you money and win business.

Chris Green's Story

'Within a few weeks of joining we'd taken advantage of FSB’s Online Legal Documents. We started a graduate programme and access to these documents gave us an understanding of the legal side, and has helped us to create a number of processes and procedures.'

Marc Wileman's Story

'When we first took on a member of staff, we used the online legal document template library. FSB does more important stuff than you think it does, there are lots of member benefits, probably more than we actually use.'

How much does FSB membership cost?

We offer three packages to suit your business needs. Joining FSB Connect is free, our Business Essentials package starts at £172.50 in the first year and our specialist Business Creation package has an introductory price of £99 in the first year.

Job market continues strong - but uncertainty ahead

The UK unemployment rate has fallen to 5%, the lowest since October 2005, according to official figures.

The latest UK jobs numbers show employment up by 55,000 and unemployment down by 20,000. Wage growth has risen slightly - with average earnings, including bonuses, up by 2.0%, a consistent rate of growth with the previous period.

“Unemployment is at historically low levels, but this does not seem to be translating into broader business confidence. Clearly there are other factors at play which, although not hitting jobs now, are causing business owners to take a cautious approach," said Mike Cherry.

The latest Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Small Business Index revealed small business confidence is at its lowest level since 2013. This suggests that while the labour market continues to be a sign of strength, the overall economic outlook is far from certain.

Mike Cherry continued: “Small businesses are already dealing with considerable new cost challenges, including the National Living Wage and pensions auto-enrolment deadlines. Whatever the result of the coming EU referendum – small business will need reassurances that the outcome will not increase the cost of doing business.”